Combined centering and facing tool.



F M. BUDLONG.

TERING AND FACING TOOL APPLICATION FILED APR.2.1917.

COMBINED QEN Patented Oct. 30, 1917.

FRANK Mnumcebnnwm attouwq 5 ATENT FFTPC FRANK MAURICE BUDLON G, OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF 'IO JOHN MOORE CURRAGH, OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINED CENTERING AND FACING TOOL.

Application filed April 2, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK MAURICE BUD- LONG, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Jose, in the county of Santa Clara and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Centering and Facing Tools, of Which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combined centering and facing tool, the object being to provide a tool adapted to be secured within the tailstock, spindle, or the like of a lathe or other metal or woodworking machine and with which any inexperienced person or novice may accurately drill a hole in the exact axial center of a shaft or similar body and also face the end of the same body without removing it from the tool.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved tool, reduced in size, showing the center operation on the end portion of a shaft. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the spring collet, and Fig. 3 a similar view of the facing cutter, used in this tool. Fig. 4 is av transverse section on line 44, Fig. 1, but showing the facing cutter in working position in full lines, and raised in dotted lines. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section and plan view, showing the facing operation on a piece of centered stock.

The tool comprises a cylindrical body 2 having a pair of round openings 3 and 4, respectively, of diiferent diameters at opposite ends of the body but with coincident axes. Body 2 is also open transversely approximately half its diameter midway of its ends, and has a. flaring opening 6 radially opposite said middle opening 5 through which the cuttings may be discharged. The smaller end opening 4 adapted to receive the round end 7 of a holder for the centerdrill 8, and a set screw 9 secures body 2 rigidly to said holder which embodies a tapering shank 10 designed to support the tool in a tailstock, or spindle of a lathe or other machine. A collar 11 on the base of shank l0 afi'ords a backing or stop for body 2, and the center drill 8 projects into the middle open portion of the body and is in plain view. This center-drill may be a separate member inset into the end of the holder, or it may be made integral therewith, and the work to be drilled by this center-drill is introduced through a centering Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 30, 1917.

Serial No. 159,316.

collet 12 which is removably seated and clamped'by a set screw 13 within the larger opening 3 in the front and larger end of the body. A slotted and split spring collet may be used as shown to hold and center the work in true axial alinement with the center-drill 8, and collets having various sized central passages may be used according to the size or shape of the work. The collet bears against an inner shoulder 14 (see Fig. 1) when inserted into opening 3, and the inner transverse face of the collet is then substantially flush with the fiat transverse face or wall 15 of the body. A cutter bar 16 extends across the tool adjacent collet 12 with the ends thereof fitting snugly within notches 17 in the sides of the body at the base of wall 15, and one end of this bar is pivoted at 18 to permit it to be turned up out of the way of the work during centerdrilling operations. When the bar is lowered and seated, in the notches, the cutting edge 19 extends radially outward from the axis of the tool and the inner end of the work may be faced off by the cutter bar.

In an operation where the work revolves, the work is chucked, and the tool placed in the tailstock or other head of the machine and fed over the end of the. work until a center hole of the desired depth is drilled in the end of the work. The cutter bar is raised during this operation, but when the head carrying the tool is fed back far enough the cutter bar is lowered to its seat and the head fed forward again to face off the end of the work. However, the tool may be used'in a-machine having a revolving spindle or head, and the work held stationary.

The tool is of simple construction and takes the place of expensive centering machines now in use, and the centering operation is as quickly obtained with this toolas in any machine especially built for centering stock material. The collet and center-drill being held in one frame or body, absolute accuracy in centering operations is assured, even where the tool is being handled by a novice, and a large saving in labor cost is possible on this account, especially in shops where centering operations must be effected in lathes and other machines in general use in such places.

The so-called opening in body 2 between the respective end portions thereof having more the respective diflerontial openings or bores for the center-drill holder and the collet, respectively, is most clearly seen in Fig. 1, and which shows a reduction of one half said body as between the two ends thereof, and Fig. 5 shows a look into the interior of the stock or wall that remains between said ends and which shows something of well with a flaring opening 6 in its bottom. This construction is also outlined in Fig.

4 and also shows clearly how the facing cuttor-bar is pivoted and supported for op' eration within said space and adapted to work immediately next to the inner face of the eollet. @therwise said bar is raised out of the way somewhat as seen in dotted lines Fig. i.

What I claim is:

1. A centering and facing tool comprising a body and a facingcutter pivoted thereon, and a collet and center-drill removably mounted in axial alinement within said body adjacent said facing cutter.

2. A tool having a body with axially alined openings of difi'erent diameters and open transversely at its middie, a swinging cutter oar at middle opening, a centerdrill having a shank secured in the smaller of the slined openings and a, collet secured in the ler radiiied opening.

3. A tooi for centering and facing operations, comprising a body having diiierentiel sores for the work and the holder for the center-drili respectively, a fecing cutter pivoted to swing in a. plane at light angles to the axis of said center-drill be tween said bores and a. center-drill mounted in the smaller of said bores.

4. A. centering and facing tool comprising a body and an operating member to which said body is fixed carrying a center-drill, a centering work holder removably mounted in said body axially opposite said holder and a facing cutter pivoted at one side on said body and adapted to swing across the face of said work holder.

igned at San Jose, in the county of Santa Clara, and State of California, thisith day of March, 1917.

FRANK MAURIGE BUDLUNG.

l/Vitnesses:

M. E. RAGE, EVA E. LYON. 

